William H. Calvin Quotes
If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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Long before we understand ourselves through the process of self-examination, we understand ourselves in a self-evident way in the family, society and state in which we live.
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We're all performing for someone.
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Maybe the bike is more dangerous, but the passion for the car for me is second to the bike.
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I like a very sexy silhouette, and I like to feel like when you put something on, you zip yourself into it, and you're secure in there.
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Ang Lee was educated in the West and his English is good.
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I don't write women who are weak or simpering.
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I started violently, as if some unseen hand had goosed me.
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
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'I hear you are going to In-jea. A most interesting country. I had a very good time there in my early youth. You must do the pig-sticking in Rajasthan. And you will find the people most agreeable in their own way. They have been most uncommonly decent to my niece.' (Galbraith, Ambassador’s Journal, 36)
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Crises are harbingers of evolution.
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I lived in an apartment near Wrigley Field.
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I guess I'm used to TV where we don't really rehearse. You block it out, and then you just start shooting.
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However, further research has shown that it is the normal condition for humans and for most other mammals. It seems pretty clear why this is the case for most mammals and for most human beings.
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In the past I'd always felt like 'the girl' in the show or the movie. On 'Friday Night Lights' there were a bunch of girls, and I was the woman. Initially there was a little struggle with my identity around that. But now there's a sense of ease.
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When I read Dickens for the first time, I thought he was Jewish, because he wrote about oppression and bigotry, all the things that my father talked about.
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I certainly hope to be a great publisher, and if people want to love me, too, that's even better.
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If you have distance from the events, then your story can work as an analogy or parable rather than its literal narrative.
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If anyone comes to the gates of poetry and expects to become an adequate poet by acquiring expert knowledge of the subject without the Muses' madness, he will fail, and his self-controlled verses will be eclipsed by the poetry of men who have been driven out of their minds.
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I think women gravitate toward me because I am a woman producing and songwriting, and there's none out there. There really isn't.
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In jail I was just like everybody else, I was sitting there praying, feeling caged.
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People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
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Kindness in words creates confidence. Kindness in thinking creates profoundness. Kindness in giving creates love.
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If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.
